It has been a super busy New Year for me in the BGgarden.com. Nothing worse than trying to put the past 11 days I’ve been absent from blogging into words for a ‘posting’. Like most of you, I’ve had the dreaded task of taking my Christmas decor down and putting it away for another year. We’ve got a major renovation project going on in my home and I have dry wall dust everywhere. Being connected to the garden network and my little 10′x12′ greenhouse have possibly been my only glimmer of sanity as we embrace another winter dusting. Garden networking has not only kept me ‘informed’ out here in the what sometimes my feel like Siberia but it has also provided me with warmth from the friendships I’ve been able to connect with. In the past few months my network has expand with my contribution to various new garden projects. If you have had the privilege of networking in the garden industry I know you can relate to that warm and cozy feeling that form of communication provides.
Let me try and play catch up and share all the fun networking that has taken place.
Can you imagine my excitement to be recognized by a few of my favorite garden connections? What an honor to be listed as one of the TOP 10 Garden Bloggers of 201o at The P.Allen Smith Blog Site. It was an honor to be mentioned with some of my favorite garden Authors and Bloggers. Gardening Gone Wild, Mr.BrownThumb , Gardening in Central Florida, The Yarden, The Casual Gardener, The Seasonal Wisdom , Farmgirl Fare, Life on the Balcony , Good Enough Gardening, and BGgarden.com were all recognized on The P.Allen Smith Website. Meeting P.Allen Smith and a few of his fabulous team members at garden events this past year will be a special chapter in my garden networking journal. It was a pleasure to finally meet Mr. Smith in Chicago while working for The Garden World Report. He really is the informative gardener you see on his P.B.S. series and even more friendly in person. You know how I know he really loves gardening? I caught him a few times doing some dead heading to the plants on display in his booth and he was always ready for any garden question his guest had for him. I’m looking forward to the blueberry shrubs P.Allen Smith or ( ‘P’ as @ JeanannVK calls Mr. Smith) had featured in his interview with Shirley Bovshow! I look forward to meeting up with these great networking connection in the New Year.
As if it wasn’t enough to be in great company on the P.Allen Smith Site as a Top 10 Garden blogger ; I have also been featured this week as the Gardener of the Month on Costa Farms website. I look forward to meeting up with the representatives from Costa Farms and sharing that adventure with you via my images in the New Year and I hope you can catch them at some of the Florida flower shows this January. Not sure who Costa Farms is? When you are at your local garden center and you see some extremely healthy house plants , go over and check out the tag and I’m sure you will find the Costa Farms logo! On February 14 the guest host on #gardenchat is a representative from Costa Farms who specializes in growing orchids. I will have more information about this event on the #gardenchat webpage.
#gardenchat in the News :
I have to mention #gardenchat in this ‘catch up’ blog post because it is part of the reason I have been absent from blogging over here at BGgarden.com . IF you click over to the Official #gardenchat Webpage you will see where I’ve been the past 11 days ( plus some). So you are thinking if you made it this far down in my ‘Did You Miss Me? ‘ post ” what the heck is a #gardenchat and why are you using a pound sign in front of a soil topic?” If you click on over to #gardenchat you will find everything about this event and so much more. The #gardenchat has become my obsession with getting the latest garden information to you all on my network. We’ve had guest host like P.Allen Smith, Proven Winners representatives, Stark Brothers, and some of my favorite garden photographers. The really cool thing about #gardenchat is you can catch up on the latest via a transcript I post with in 24 hours after each scheduled event. This is my FORMAL invitation to you : come on over and connect where all the gardens grow on Twitter! We tweet every Monday at 9-10 p.m. EST on Twitter.
Why Network about the Garden
And there is more ….. but I’m going to save the details on #supersowsunday for my next blog entry. Did I just create a ‘cliff hanger’? I hope you will join me in my next post when I share with you some of the details unfolding for the 2nd annual #supersowsunday that will take place on Twitter February 6 during the Super Bowl. Why talk about Networking from the garden community? One of my goals has always been to share with you all what is going on in my ‘neck of the woods’. My continued goal with sharing all I do on my blog and these networks is to better educate and share with everyone what is going on in the gardens that I come in contact with. WHY…. because I really believe that when you grow veggies & blooms it is a way of showing you truly believe in tomorrow.
I’m asking you to subscribe to my blog knowing that I will do my best to bring to you the fact and happenings from the gardens I come in contact with. I look forward to networking with you. -Happy 2011 Bren of BGgarden.com
I know it is Wordless Wednesday but it looks like I’m going to start this out ‘wordy’ because I’m extremely happy this morning thanks to a guest in my garden. I looked out beyond my computer screen to find a Doe looking at me. ( image above). I slowly reached for my camera and captured her. She has no idea ( or does she?) how much I was thinking about her and her youngsters the past weeks when hunting season arrived. Every time I heard a shotgun echoing from the woods I couldn’t help but think of some ‘trigger’ happy hunter hitting one of the little visitors I had captured in
I’ve never had an Amaryllis bloom this short. This is the bulb I shared back on December 10 on this blog. It is a discount treasure I found at one of my favorite markets. The steam on this Holiday beauty is only 6 ” long.
